Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on XML DOM. In this tutorial, we are going to be studying about the XML DOM removeNamedItem Method.
The XML DOM removeNamedItem method removes a node specified by name.
The XML DOM removeNamedItem method removes a node specified by name.
Syntax
The following below is the syntax to use the XML DOM removeNamedItem Method -
nodemapObject.removeNamedItem(name)
Parameter Details
| S.No. | Parameter & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | name This specifies the name of the node to remove. It is of type DOMString. |
Return Value
It returns the removed node.
Example
Following below are the node.xml contents -
<?xml version = "1.0"?> <Company> <Employee category = "Technical"> <FirstName>Kennedy</FirstName> <LastName>Nkpara</LastName> <ContactNo>1234567890</ContactNo> <Email>kennedynkpara@xyz.com</Email> </Employee> <Employee category = "Non-Technical"> <FirstName>Stephanie</FirstName> <LastName>Francis</LastName> <ContactNo>1234667898</ContactNo> <Email>stephaniefrancis@xyz.com</Email> </Employee> <Employee category = "Management"> <FirstName>Justice</FirstName> <LastName>Dauglas</LastName> <ContactNo>1234562350</ContactNo> <Email>justicedauglas@xyz.com</Email> </Employee> </Company>
The following example illustrates the usage of the removeNamedItem method -
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script> function loadXMLDoc(filename) { if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); } else // code for IE5 and IE6 { xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } xhttp.open("GET",filename,false); xhttp.send(); return xhttp.responseXML; } </script> </head> <body> <script> xmlDoc = loadXMLDoc("/dom/node.xml"); y = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('Employee')[0].attributes; document.write("Name of the attribute removed from 'category' : ") document.write(y.removeNamedItem('category').nodeValue); </script> </body> </html>
Output
Save this file as namednodemapmethod_removenameditem.html on the server path (this file and node.xml should be on the same path in your server). This gives us the following output below -
Name of the attribute removed from 'category' : Technical
Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we will be studying about XML DOM removeNamedItemNS Method.
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